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Today's birthdays; Rita Coolidge, Joanna Lumley, John Woo, John Diehl, Wes Anderson, Bernard Butler & Jamie Dornan

#OnThisDay 1851: First public flushing toilets, the 'Monkey Closets', unveiled by George Jennings as part of The Great Exhibition at Hyde Park, London, costing one penny.

#OnThisDay 1704: Boston News-Letter publishes the first newspaper advertisement, promoting an estate for sale in Oyster Bay, Long Island.

Quote For The Day: “Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.” - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (born this day in 1881)

Today’s astronaut birthday; Happy Birthday to Victor Glover! nasa.gov/sites/default/…

Today’s astronaut birthday; Duane G. “Digger” Carey nasa.gov/sites/default/…

Today's birthdays; Johnny Farina, Jane Campion, Lars von Trier, Paul Gross, Adrian Pasdar, Steven Mackintosh, John Boyne, Johnny Galecki, Ana de Armas & Kunal Nayyar

#OnThisDay 1952: Mr Potato Head becomes the first toy advertised on television. It was also the first advertising campaign to be aimed directly at children.

#OnThisDay 1562: Jean Ribault and colonists arrive in Florida, the first French colonists in North America.

Quote For The Day: “The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.” - Hosea Ballou (born this day in 1771)

Today's cosmonaut birthday; Nikolai Budarin wikiwand.com/en/Nikolai_Bud… gctc.ru/main.php?id=10…

Today's birthdays; Anita Dobson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Jo Martin & Tom Smith (Editors)

#OnThisDay 1945: Conscientious objector Desmond Doss saves an estimated 75 wounded soldiers in the Battle of Okinawa at Hacksaw Ridge. Later depicted in the Oscar-winning film 'Hacksaw Ridge'.

#OnThisDay 1845: Macon B. Allen & Robert Morris Jr are the first African Americans to open a law practice in the US.

Quote For The Day: “To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.” - Henri Poincare (born this day in 1854)